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...frailty, Mickey is in some ways fortunate -- he's in the process of being adopted. That makes him an exception among "special-needs" children, to use the innocuous term for kids who don't find permanent homes easily -- and most often don't find them at all. They include blacks and other minorities, the physically or mentally handicapped, and any group of siblings who must be adopted together. The term also applies to children who are simply too old for a market that favors infants. In the beauty contest that is adoption, it is never wise to turn five...
Parents who adopt special-needs children speak of the rewards as often as the difficulties. Says Sam Borodin of Philadelphia, who with his wife has adopted three girls with Down syndrome: "They have given us joy and love back tenfold." But there are times when caring for a child with special needs can be too hard a test. In Texas a group of seven couples has brought a lawsuit against the state adoption agency, charging that they should have been told that their adopted children had been abused. As the children approached adolescence, they began to behave in a bizarre...
Despite the broedertwis (Afrikaans for a brotherly falling out), F.W., 53, and Willem, 61, retain great affection for each other. They see each other once a month, often at the Pretoria home of their 86-year-old mother, and speak on the phone weekly. Two days before last month's election, F.W. asked, "Don't you want to consider voting Nationalist and making it public?" Recalls Willem: "Then he said, 'That's only a joke between us.' He tries to persuade me, and I try to persuade him. We agree to disagree...
...Klerk family tree is deeply rooted in politics. A great-grandfather sat in the now defunct Senate, and Uncle Johannes Strijdom served as Prime Minister from 1954 to 1958. The family often vacationed at Strijdom's summer estate in the Kruger National Park. The brothers' indomitably conservative father Jan de Klerk played a pivotal role in the Nationalists' dramatic victory in 1948 as the party's secretary in the Transvaal. F.W. was only twelve at the time, and his father's passion for electoral politics made an indelible impression...
While outsiders often have trouble adapting to Hollywood's insular ways, Sony appeared decisive and savvy last week. Columbia CEO Victor Kaufman and chief operating officer Lewis Korman announced that they would be leaving once the deal was set. At the same time, Sony said it agreed to pay $200 million to buy Guber-Peters Productions. One of the hottest producer teams in Hollywood, Peter Guber, 47, a former Columbia production executive, and Jon Peters, 42, who got his start as a hairdresser to the stars, produced Rain Man for United Artists and Batman for Warner Bros...